DevBoards Program Meeting March 7, 2024

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our meeting was held this week, despite no published agenda, at the "normal" time on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at the following time:

• 3:00 PM UTC,  
• 4:00 PM Central Europe time,
• 8:30 PM India Standard Time,
• 11:00 PM China Standard Time
• 10:00 AM Eastern U.S. Standard Time,  
• 7:00 AM Pacific U.S. Standard Time.

With Daylight Saving Time season upon us, please note that your meeting time will only change with DST.  To quote Daniel, "Trust your calendar!"

Per convention, the official minutes are in our Meeting Document.  I'm attaching a copy here for your convenience.  Please question, correct, and extend the information in the document or to the email list as you deem appropriate.

Attendees: Jeff, Daniel, fuwei, Greg, Isaac, Yubo, Hui-Zhi, Axel

Board Updates:

• SpacemiT: K1 

• Banana Pi BPI-F3

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Program Updates:

• Debian

•  No update. Unstable was broken almost one week.:(

• Fedora

• Fedora 39 distrepo 有 98.58% srpm with LiveCD

• Only 324 srpm left, only 900 rpms can’t be installed because of dependency

• ROS2 Image on TH1520

• CasaOS Image (NAS)

• NextCloud App

• Fedora 40 koji repo 有 88.74% srpm

• SUSE

• We’re still working on syncing with Sophgo about the kernel building issues.

• oreboot

• We got a new contributor, may bring back the QEMU RISC-V port

• Now on Rust embedded-hal v1.0 all across the repo (monorepo)

• Firmware

• New RISC-V Platform Management Interface Task Group (RPMI TG): https://github.com/riscv-admin/rpmi 

• Looking for a testimonial by Milk-V and/or Sophgo regarding their use of u-root and LinuxBoot for the upcoming u-root website refresh

• Daniel’s RISC-V tech session talk “Bootloaders in Limbo” now publish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ub8rCMrso0 

• RISC-V

• RISC-V Ecosystem Application Tracking

• Link: https://tech.riscv.org/software-ecosystem

• We will continue to track as set of Applications that are critical to our success.  

• Isaac is working with consumers and partners to build, maintain, and grow this list.

• Lichee Pi4A Project closed on the web.  List of boards to ship has been submitted.

• Remaining Pioneer projects are being confirmed and list will be shipped to Sophgo next week.

• Kendryte and Huashan projects remain open, with less than 10 acceptable projects.  Will start working on these after Pioneer submission.

• Starting buy process for 10 Lichee Pi4As and 10 VisionFive V2s.  Will experiment with delivery as we roll these out.

What’s cool?:

•  https://milkv.io/docs/duo/getting-started/arduino - Arduino enablement for RISC-V on Milk-V Duo

• Scaleway (RISC-V member) launches hosted RISC-V servers based on TH1520 https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-its-risc-v-servers-in-the-cloud-a-world-first-and-a-firm-commitment-to-technological-independence/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/03/01/scaleway-hosted-risc-v-servers/ - looks like Lichee Pi 4A cluster boards https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a, https://sipeed.com/assets/cluster.0cf3c4a6.png! 

Miscellaneous notes:

• Open Source Firmware Conference will take place in Bochum, Germany, September 3-5; see https://osfc.io/

• RISC-V Summit EU - June 24-28, CFP has been extended: https://riscv-europe.org/summit/2024/cfp

• Open Source Summit NA - April 16-18 in Seattle, Washington  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/ 

• Daylight Savings Time starting in the U.S. on March 10.  However, the meeting is scheduled in UTC.  So, the next meeting times should change (an hour later) for U.S. participants ONLY.  Watch (and trust) your calendar!

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International